Teaching the Fa in Beijing at the

Zhuan FalunPublication Ceremony

(January 4, 1995)

First I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Some that are here today are veteran students, and some have not attended the
lectures, but everyone has some understanding of Falun Dafa. Just now, our volunteer
workers summarized the work done in 1994 for Falun Dafa. A few of the existing
problems were broadly covered, and wherever we fell short, we will make improvements
in our future work and in the development of Dafa. Currently, judging from the
way our practice is developing as a whole, we can see a trend of rapid expansion,
with Dafaís influence growing greater and shooting straight up, spreading at
a very fast rate. It has been only a little over two years since I started to
teach the practice. In the beginning, we spread the practice by teaching the
Fa in the form of a low-level qigong that was for healing and keeping
fit. That was because we needed to allow everyone a period of time to get to
know it. When I first came to the public, I said specifically that my goal in
going public was to teach the practice at high levels, and to guide people to
reach high levels. There was no one teaching people how to truly cultivate to
high levels yet. Of course, in the beginning we spread it in the form of qigongósomething
at a low levelóand the purpose was to give everyone a period of time to get
to know it first. In this last year in particular, however, I have been basically
teaching the Fa. So our students have all come to know that I talk about things
at a rather high level, that the subjects I discuss are all things that others
arenít able to teach, and that I talk about true cultivation and the issue of
how to cultivate. Because there are many cultivation ways and they have been
disseminated for so many years, there is indeed a problem of how to improve.
It wonít do if you just remain stuck in the existing theories. In the past,
many people practiced cultivation but didnít pay attention to cultivating their
xinxing[1] or didnít value virtue, so things were in disarray.

We are teaching the Great Law of the Buddha school, so we will talk about the
principles of the Buddha school. Buddha Shakyamuni said that during the Dharma
Ending Period demons would appear, creating disasters and wreaking havoc in
our ordinary human society. Actually what he was talking about was not just
demons coming to the temples to damage his Fa. That wasnít the only meaningóhe
was conveying a general and broad truth. Think about it everyone, in this current
period, the human moral standard has deteriorated to such an extent, and the
conflicts among people have intensified to such a degree. People are bent solely
on profit and gain, and dare to do anything for money. Public morality is deteriorating
day by day. Right now, the relationships between people are really tense, and
the moral standard is quite degenerate. All varieties of messed up and depraved
things are taking place in China
and abroad: homosexuality, ďsexual liberationĒ, drugs, gangsóeverything. Older
Chinese people still have some concept of morality and are keeping this societyís
current state from getting worse. In the West, they give great importance to
a sense of propriety, so their propriety at the surface too can be sustained
for a period of time. But in the younger generation, and especially among us
Chinese, there is simply no morality left to talk about. Think about it everyone,
isnít it dangerous for things to go on and keep developing like this?

Many great masters and prophets said that humankind would go through some sort
of havoc or tribulation in the future. It doesnít matter how they put it, letís
think about it: if this society keeps going like this, isnít it dangerous? When
something reaches an extreme, it will reverse course! If it keeps going like
this, what would people of the next stage be like? I am teaching this to the
public. At high levels it can guide people in cultivation, and on low levels
it can guide people to behave as human beings. It truly can achieve such an
effect. That is why many of our students want to study it, seek to study it,
and think itís very good. Thatís because as the true Fa is taught it can offer
people salvation, and the students feel this deeply. This is not limited to
your logical thinking; your physical body, the quality of your character, and
your moral standard have all undergone a great change. Thatís why it can have
such a great impact. This Dafa of ours is different from conventional qigong
practices, as we are truly teaching towards high levels.

Currently there are many workers who, after learning the practice, have changed
the morale and mental outlook at their factories. When people understand how
to conduct themselves and value virtue (de), it can translate into productivity
as well. Peopleís hearts are all turning to goodness and they are focused on
working diligently. If you want to be a good cultivator, you have to first start
from the basics: you have to first be a good person. Good people have to act
like good people under any circumstances, so you have to do well in the work
that your boss assigns to you. You have to fulfill your obligations in society,
and this will definitely have a positive effect and move things forward. I am
teaching this practice towards high levels, and what I lecture on is the Fa
that is taught towards high levels. It can guide people to cultivate towards
high levels, and even cultivate to still higher realms.

You may say that you donít want to cultivate to high levels, but perhaps once
an ordinary person hears these truths, he will find that he should conduct himself
according to these same truths just the same. Thatís because no matter how close
human morality slips to the brink of danger, the truths of this universe do
not change. Precisely because the truths of this universe donít change, we are
able to see the descent of human morality. If the truth had also changed, then
the fall of human morality couldnít be detected. Iíve said that human morality
has slipped to this level, and many people still donít quite understand. Particularly
for some who have attended the lectures, often in the first day or two they
didnít quite understand the issues I was talking about. But once the lectures
were over they would look back at ordinary human society and understand everything.
In the midst of this powerful current you donít feel it yourselves, and you
might even think that you are better than others. But, only after your thinking
rises to a higher level and you look back, will you come to realize how dangerous
it was. That is because Dafa can have this kind of power and this kind of effect.
Although things have come to this stage, people still have benevolent thoughts
and their Buddha nature is still there. So once you explain it, they will understand.
Many people still seek out goodness and want to learn, and of course, there
are many people with a really good foundation who still need to cultivate even
higher, all of which enabled such a trend to develop in the course of disseminating
our practice.

A few years ago, some people blindly opposed qigong with an attitude
of rejecting it across the board, and this resulted in qigong sinking
to a low point. In the last two years, there were some signs of it regaining
popularity. Although it wasnít as popular as before, it was still quite popular.
But more recently the trend has cooled off again. It didnít cool off because
someone was opposing it or criticizing it, nor were any administrative measures
behind the cooling. Instead, it was because people were able to think calmly
about which ones were genuine, which were fake, and which ones were used to
deceive and hurt people. Everyone is pondering these questions and calmly dealing
with them. Thatís why the situation is what it is today. As a result, many fake
qigong no longer have an audience. They canít hold classes and canít
cheat people out of money anymore. Of course, I have been to many places to
teach the practice, and many leaders of the local chapters of the Qigong Science
Research Society and Human Science Research Societytold
me these things. They said that right now itís difficult to hold qigong
classes in various regions, and that itís really hard to enroll students. Qigong
as a whole is on the decline. Only Falun Dafa is shooting straight up, and it
is growing very rapidly. Of course this is what others have said. Iím just bringing
it up. In the future it might grow even faster, even more rapidly. I knew this
before I came to the public. I also knew what situations would occur in the
future. I was crystal-clear.

Generally speaking, in the process of spreading the Fa, our Falun Dafa has
been responsible to students and to society. That is why weíve received such
good results. Just now I briefly talked about the state of our Falun Dafaís
development. There are many new students sitting here today who may still feel
they canít quite understand things. Many students still want me to talk about
the state of things concerning Falun Dafa and lecture a bit more on the Fa.
There are some new students in the audience, and I can take this time to introduce
Falun Dafa to you. At the same time I can talk briefly to you about some Fa
principles of cultivation.

As we all know, practicing qigong at the level of eliminating health
problems and strengthening the body involves taking the best from different
practices. Since everyone wants to practice qigong and strengthen the
body to get rid of health problems, if one is taking the best from different
practices, what does it matter which person something is taken from? Itís fine
if you want to go back to being an ordinary person. Iíve said that at different
levels there exist different Fa, and the Fa at different levels have different
constraints and requirements for cultivators of different levels. Ordinary people
are just at this surface level, and itís no problem for them to take the best
parts from different practices to make the body healthy. The truth is though,
qigong isnít just for eliminating health problems and strengthening the
body; it has in fact been cultivation all along. In order to conform to modern
peopleís ways of thinking, in order for it to be readily accepted and not easily
given a false label, people came up with the name ďqigong.Ē During the
mid-to-late stages of the Cultural Revolution, qigong started to spread
and began to peak. At that time if you called it by its original names, you
might very well have been condemned. It wouldnít be allowed, even though you
wanted to do something good by helping the masses eliminate illness, keep fit,
and have a healthy body. That was because of the extreme Maoist faction back
then. So people didnít call it by its original name, they just generally started
calling it qigong. Of course, there were different disciplines and branches
of qigong, and the cultivation method of each discipline and each branch
was different. So when this or that qigong was being taught to the public,
they all hid their original names. That was how people started using the term
qigong.

Qigong is something related to cultivation, just as the cultivation
methods in religions are a way of cultivating. Since it is a cultivation method,
it isnít just simply getting healthy and strengthening the body, because it
aims to reach a very high and profound realm. Think about it, if itís used for
healing and to strengthen the body for people, of course amazing results will
be seen. But thereís one point: why is it that many people practice qigong
but canít get rid of their ailments? Why is it that many people practice qigong
but their gong doesnít grow? Because qigong is cultivation. So,
something that is cultivation is not the same as ordinary peopleís calisthenics,
or some kind of skill or sport among ordinary people. It is something supernormal.
Since itís something supernormal, if you want to use this supernormal method
to make your body healthy and reach a high, profound realm, then doesnít this
supernormal thing have to be guided by a principle thatís supernormal? Then,
these supernormal principles actually have a guiding and restraining effect.
In other words, they surpass the level of ordinary people, and you must follow
the requirements set forth by the supernormal principles. With things at this
level of ordinary people, you can do a little bit of work, spend a little money,
and buy that thing; or if you work a little harder, you can gain it like gaining
an ordinary personís skill. But it doesnít work that way with cultivation, as
the personís mind must be cultivated. Only when you cultivate your mind are
you able to elevate. If you want to improve, you must value virtue and cultivate
xinxing.

In the past I explained why people have to stress xinxing and cultivate
virtue to improve. This is because in this universe there is an overriding principle.
Whatís the principle? It is the nature of the universe that I have talked about.
Like us humansótake your human body for exampleóbesides this flesh body of yours,
you also have other life forms that exist. Only then can a complete person be
formed. Your body by itself is just a piece of flesh. You need to have your
temperament, disposition, special characteristics, and your soul before you
can be a complete and independent person, a person with unique qualities of
your own. The same goes for this universe. Aside from its material existence
that we know, including the heavenly bodies, the Milky Way, stars, comets, planetsóaside
from the material substances we know ofóit still has another special quality,
which can be called a spiritual existence. Then to sum it up, once this Fa gets
to lower levels it is very broad, and there are many ways to talk about it.
Yet itís quite simple at very high levels. Three words sum up this special nature:
Zhen-Shan-Ren.[2] Now mind you, this isnít that ďtruth, compassion, beauty.Ē[3]
It is Zhen-Shan-Ren.

Of course, this nature isnít that simple. From within, it propagated and evolved
into a great many things at different levels. The lower the level, the more
complicated and enormous. At high levels it can be summarized in three words:
Zhen-Shan-Ren. This nature exists in every microscopic particle of air
and the most microscopic particles in every substanceósoil, stone, steel, wood,
even plasticóthe nature exists in every substance and in the air. Ordinary people
canít feel its existence, because they are at their levelóthat of ordinary peopleóand
so they canít feel it. Once you want to surpass the level of ordinary people,
you can then feel its presence. In other words, if you want to use this supernormal
method to eliminate illnesses but you donít follow its requirements and donít
follow the standard required by such a supernormal state, then you canít get
rid of illnesses. If you want to increase gong, but you donít follow
the requirements of this supernormal principle, which are above the level of
ordinary people, then your gong will never go up.

Then why is it that some people have quite low moral standards yet still have
some gong? For some it is a result of their foundation. Since their moral
standard is quite low, they are consuming their foundation. Once it is used
up they will have nothing left. Before they use it all up, though, they still
have a little bit [of gong]. In some instances spirit possession is involved.
Demons are permitted to exist during a specified time period, at a specified,
very low state, for they can be of use. If there were no demons, people would
have no health problems; if there were no demons, people would have no tribulations,
either. But people are supposed to have tribulations and supposed to have health
problems, because they created these themselves. So on the other hand, it can
be said that demons are also created by the people themselves. If you took advantage
of and mistreated someone in the past, did something bad, or killed lives, then
you have to pay it back. Youíre not allowed to go without paying it back. In
this cosmos, there is a principle derived from the principle of Zhen-Shan-Ren.
It is, ďno loss, no gain.Ē To gain, one must lose, and whatís owed must be paid
back. If you donít want to lose, you will be forced to lose. Thatís the principle
behind it, so the hardships and tribulations will be there.

Just now I talked about Zhen-Shan-Ren. The Buddha schoolís cultivation
mainly focuses on the understanding of Shan out of this ďZhen-Shan-Ren.Ē
It also has Zhen and Ren, yet it focuses on the cultivation of
Shan. Cultivating Shan can create a benevolent heart. Once a person
develops a benevolent heart, he sees that everyone is suffering, and thus he
has the wish to offer salvation to sentient beings. As this Fa is spread down,
it gets quite expansive. Because the goal is to save all sentient beings, it
is passed on to many people, and eighty-four thousand cultivation ways were
created as a result. The Tao school primarily focuses on enlightening to Zhen
and mainly cultivates Zhen. It has Shan and Ren, too, but
its main focus falls on the cultivation of Zhen. So they talk about speaking
true words, doing true things, being a true person, cultivating Zhen
and improving character, returning to the origin and the true self, and ultimately
cultivating to be a True Person. Their focus falls on the cultivation of Zhen.
Since they cultivate with an emphasis on Zhen, they donít have the wish
to save all sentient beings, so the Tao schoolís genuine teachings are passed
down to only one disciple at a time. Taoism is a kind of reformed religion that
was developed in recent generations. Long ago, Taoism was not found in any of
the prehistoric cultures. So, the practice of the Tao school has always been
passed to only one disciple at a time. Since it was passed down through one
disciple at a time, the scale on which it was spread was limited. As its Fa
was passed down, three thousand six hundred cultivation ways were developed.
The Buddha school has eighty-four thousand cultivation ways, which is quite
a lot compared to the Tao school

Zhen-Shan-Ren is the only standard for measuring good and bad. Only
when you assimilate to this nature can your gong improve. If you donít
assimilate to this nature, then your gong will never be able to improve.
We have said that for a cultivator or an ordinary person, this principle can
be briefly summed up in a few sentences. For example, how do you differentiate
between good people, bad people, and cultivators? The person who is able to
follow the nature of the universe is a good personóitís certain that he is a
good person. The person who acts against the nature of this universe is a truly
bad person. Perhaps there are some people who have been told by others at work
that they are no good. They have gone through hardships their entire lives,
or are always looked down upon or taken advantage of. Let me tell you, youíre
not necessarily truly bad. If at the workplace everyone praises you, or perhaps
you are skillful at making yourself look good,thenlet me tell you, youíre not necessarily truly good.
The principle of the universe is the only standard for measuring good and bad.
So as a cultivator, if you can assimilate to this nature of the universe, then
you are someone who has attained the Tao. Itís that simple.

A personís gong is absolutely not obtained through doing the exercises.
Everyone is practicing qigong and making quite a lot of effort. They
get up early in the morning and go to bed late at night in order to practice,
and they believe that their gong will go up. But it doesnít increase
at all. What I just said might surprise many people. They ask, ďArenít you teaching
people to practice qigong exercises? Then why are you teaching people?Ē
You all know the term, ďcultivation practice.Ē Well, people focus on the practice
part but donít take the cultivation part seriously. They just think the word
ďcultivationĒ is a modifier for the word ďpractice,Ē a modifier for the noun.
Let me tell you, cultivation comes before practice. Cultivation is first and
foremost. If you donít take the cultivation of your xinxing seriously
and donít pay attention to virtue, then you wonít have any energy to speak of!
If you donít take the cultivation of your xinxing seriously, then you
wonít have any gong! True energy and gong are one and the same,
and this is the gong that determines oneís level and the strength of
oneís gong power (gong li). As for the level of a personís gong,
or the ďattainment statusĒ (guo wei) referred to in Buddhism, this gong
can only be the result of cultivation. We can all see that a monk doesnít practice
qigong, but his gong can grow. Why is that? Itís because he is
cultivating.

Then whatís the relationship between cultivation and the practice that we talk
about? In a bit Iíll talk about what we practice. Whatís the relationship between
cultivation and practice? Why is it that when we cultivate, our gong
can grow? Some may ask: ďIsnít this matter of xinxing cultivation, this
thing that youíve talked about, something that exists only in peopleís mindsets,
notions, and ways of thinking?Ē But, isnít the gong we talk about something
material? Whatís the relationship between them? Let me tell you, this principle
at high levels canít be understood in the same way as at low levels. Ordinary
people in society canít clearly explain ordinary peopleís things, but if you
can jump out from among them and then look at those things, they can be understood
with just a glance. Among those concerned with ideology and theory, people have
been continuously arguing about which comes first, matter or mind; they are
continuously arguing over this question. They debate and try to understand the
two separately. I say they are actually one thingóthey are integrated. Letís
give the simplest of examples. Currently, whether itís those who are engaged
in the science of the human body or in the contemporary sciences, it is believed
that peopleís thoughts and the things people imagine are a kind of mind-activity
energy. The thoughts that people produce are thus a kind of matter. That is
how itís commonly understood at this time. Then, given that they are a type
of matter, arenít they a part of peopleís thoughts and the way they think? Arenít
they the thoughts in your mind? Arenít they the same type of thing? I just gave
a simple example on this subject.

I said just now that such a substance exists in the universe, and at the same
time such a nature exists, so it is one thing and of one body. If you donít
assimilate to this nature, then you will never be able to cultivate upwards.
What does that mean? To give a simple example, this nature exists in the vast
matter of this universe and in every substance. It is a balancing and restricting
force in the universe. In ordinary peopleís society, in life after life and
generation after generation, people have no idea how many bad things theyíve
done. I would say that people have gotten to where they are today with karma
built upon karmaóthey all have a great deal of karma. Itís just like a bottle.
If a bottle is filled with dirty things and you twist the cap on really tight,
and then you donít pour the dirty things out, when you throw the bottle into
water, ďplop,Ē it will sink right to the bottom. If you pour a little bit of
it out and you throw it in water, it will float up a little. As you pour a little
out it floats a little higher. The more thatís poured out, the higher it floats.
When you have poured out all of those dirty things and you put the cap on, even
if you try to push it down into the water, you wonít be able to. It just floats
there, as that is what its position should be. I gave this example to
illustrate the point that people in ordinary peopleís society have all done
some bad things; your heart is polluted, your mind is polluted, and you have
a great deal of karma. If you donít get rid of those things and your xinxing
doesnít change for the better, you will still produce those bad things. They
will keep on being produced every moment. So you must change your heart for
the better and get rid of these substances and bad things. In other words, when
you are cultivating among ordinary people, you have to suffer a little, your
physical body has to labor, and your mind has to bear hardship. Only then can
you rise. What Iím talking about is improvement through cultivation. If you
donít cultivate your heart, the nature of the universe will restrict you, and
it wonít let you rise. We can also break it down part-by-part for you, and tell
you how this gong rises.

Speaking of people, actually in every dimension there are peopleóthey exist
in every dimension. Because of differences in time-spaces, the differences in
their bodies in terms of existence and in form are quite significant. In a special
dimension, there is a field around our bodies, and there are two kinds of substances
in this field. One is virtue, which is a kind of white substance that comes
in clusters. For those with a lot of virtue, the density will be very high.
In the past people always said that virtue was something that exists only in
ideological terms or is some kind of a state. Let me tell you that virtue is
a kind of matter and has a purely material existence. And there is another thing
that exists in the same field, called karma, but it is black. Virtue is gained
when one does good things, is taken advantage of and mistreated by others, suffers
hardships, or endures tribulations. That black karma, on the other hand, is
produced when one does bad things. In the past, people talked about how good
or bad oneís foundation wasósomething determined by the proportion of those
two substancesóand this formed a major component of whatís considered by cultivators
to be a good or bad foundation in ordinary society. But ordinary people using
mortal eyes cannot see it, because ordinary people are in a maze, and being
in a maze is what allows you to return from the maze. Since you made yourself
fall down this far, you have to cultivate your way back with sealed vision.
Youíre not allowed to see the truth, as once you see the truth you canít cultivate
anymore, because then there would be nothing more to enlighten to and cultivate.
If people could see while cultivating, who wouldnít do it? Why is a Buddha always
at one, set level? Why canít he improve and ascend? Of course, itís because
he knows everything, and there is no longer the matter of cultivating xinxing
for him. Itís easy to cultivate only when one is in a maze. Some people
stress that if they could see things clearly they would be able to cultivate
more easily. Actually, if you could see things clearly, you couldnít cultivate
at all. Some other people say, ďIíll believe it only after I see it. If I donít
see it I wonít believe it.Ē We have always regarded this kind of person as having
poor enlightenment quality.

Like I just said, gong is actually gained through peopleís cultivation.
I also said that this field of virtue surrounds a personís body. If you have
a lot of virtue, then you can achieve very high-level gong. If you donít
have a lot of virtue, then, after going through suffering, the black substance
can be turned into the white substance. It wonít be eliminated, though, as this
kind of substance cannot be destroyed. So for any person that is cultivating,
the virtue within the boundaries of his dimensional field is actually what is
transformed into gong. The gong that truly determines the power
of your gong and your level is transformed from your own virtue. How
is it transformed? In the past, among cultivators there was a saying (not at
all the same as whatís talked about in the qigong community): ďCultivation
is up to the individual, while gong is up to the master.Ē What does this
mean? It means that when you have the wish to cultivate in that school, when
you have a wish to cultivate something, you just have that desire, while it
is actually the master that is doing things for you. Some people talk about
mind-intent activities, having mind-intent this way or that way. But that canít
solve anything. Itís just a wish. In actuality, it is the master who sets up
a crucible or furnace, gathers chemicals and makes the dan
[4] for you, or forms for you a circulating
cosmic orbit, or opens the energy channels and the acupuncture points, and so
on, for you. Ordinary peopleís thoughts donít have any energy, and ordinary
peopleís hands simply canít accomplish these things.

For true gong to grow, the mechanisms that produce those things [needed
by it] are even more precise than precision instruments. Theyíre extremely complicated.
How could you do that? There is a saying that was passed down in secret: ďCultivation
is up to the individual, while gong is up to the master.Ē In the past,
this wasnít made known at low levels. So when the master sees that you have
cultivated quite well, that your xinxing has improved, and that the universeís
special nature is not restricting you as much, then you will be able to increase
your gong. Then, at that time the master gives you a kind of gong,
which we call a capability for increasing gong. It transforms your virtue
into gong in a spiral fashion around the body, and it grows upwards in
a spiral-like form. Once it reaches the top of the head, it will gradually form
a gong pillar there. As the strength of your gong power and levels
continue to improve, this gong pillar will continue to grow. This is
exactly the gong that determines your level and the strength of your
gong power. All of the energy you give off originates from here. Itís
certainly not a dan, and in a bit I will talk about dan. Oneís
true level lies in this.

As you know, the attainment status discussed in Buddhism is determined by what
position your gong pillar has reached, how high you have cultivated,
and how high of a level you have reachedóthatís where it is. There are some
people whose souls, as soon as the person meditates, can leave the body and
go up to a certain height. If theyíre told to go up even more, they canít. It
wonít work, and they canít go any higher. If they do go higher, they will be
afraid and fall down. Why canít they go any higher? Itís because their gong
pillar is just that high, and thatís the attainment status they have cultivated.
They rode their gong pillar up there. Itís said in Buddhism that wherever
one has cultivated to is where one will end up in the future. This gong
is completely the result of people cultivating their xinxing and assimilating
themselves to the universeís nature, which no longer restricts them. That is
when gong can grow and be transformed from virtue. Isnít this a result
of cultivation? This kind of gong is completely the result of people
cultivating their hearts.

Then what does the movement part [of our practice] work on? It is to change
the human body. In the beginning you can call it nourishing your life; in the
end you can call it prolonging your life. It also strengthens supernormal capabilities.
What does strengthening mean? Itís about using energy to make them stronger.
There is also the transformation of technique-related things, and the transformation
of all kinds of living beings. It is very complicated. So as for the appearance
of various shapes and forms of gong, before you can have them, you must
fortify them with energy, and without such energy there is nothing. When people
have gong they simply canít emit qi, there just isnít any. What
is emitted at that point is a kind of high-energy matter, yet few can detect
the sensation of emitting it from inside the body. These are the things that
I am teaching and discussing at high levels. In the past, they were always regarded
as heavenly secrets, and nobody was allowed to talk about them. This time, over
the course of my lectures I have revealed all of them along with many other
high-level, profound things. The goal is to allow people to truly cultivate
and to be responsible to people. I am indeed guiding people this way, so itís
not considered casually leaking heavenly secrets or messing things up casually
and irresponsibly. We have indeed had that effect. Our studentsí xinxing
are improving quite fast, and our growth has been quite rapid.

Some students say: ďAfter attending the Falun Dafa lectures, my perception
of the world changed completely. I have no idea how I managed to make it to
such an advanced age in life, and only today have I realized the reason for
living.Ē Thatís what students said. Iím just telling everyone that no one in
the past talked about matters of true cultivation. If you donít believe it,
you can try looking it up in the ancient texts. Look through the Tao Te Ching
[5] or thumb through Buddhist scriptures.
People in the past relied on enlightening to those things on their own, and
there were no open discussions. Today I have revealed all of it. Although I
have revealed it, humans have gotten to their current state, and even if you
teach it to them, they wonít listen or believe it. They will think that itís
just preaching and not practical. But no matter how much is taught, there is
still the issue of enlightening. After all, you canít see, or at least see clearly,
and you still have to cultivate in a maze. That issue still exists. I just talked
about how gong grows. Look at the monks of ancient times: they didnít
do any exercises, but their gong still grew. The true gong that
determines the height of oneís level and the strength of oneís gong power
is not at all the result of doing exercises.

Then what do the movements [of our exercises] work on? The movements, as I
just said, are actually to change a personís original body. But if thereís no
energy to strengthen it, it canít be changed. Only when the molecular cells
in your body are gradually filled with high-energy matter can you reach the
goal of prolonging your life. If you donít have this gong and energy,
then what do you rely on to strengthen it? Empty talk doesnít help. As you know,
there are many supernormal capabilities. Aside from whatís passed on by the
master, a large portion of these capabilities inherently exist in the human
body, meaning that everyone has them, but they are not functional. Some people
said they had a dream while sleeping, and the next morning it came true. Some
said they foresaw something, and a few days later it really did happen. Then
there is someone else who, while doing something, had a sudden feeling of deja
vu, even though he actually hadnít done that thing in his life. So whatís going
on? Actually these are all manifestations of abilities, and involve entering
into the future before it arrived or entering into the past. But those capabilities
of yours are barely discernible. They are nothing, and without energy theyíre
not really usable. They can only have this little effect. Once there is energy
to bolster them, itís called strengthening the capabilities. Only when they
are strengthened by gong power can they become strong and easy to use,
and only then can they have some effect. But if you donít cultivate your mind
and you want to attain something, you wonít get anything at all.

Some students even call themselves masters of Falun Dafa. Many of our veteran
students know better. If someone called them ďmaster,Ē they would be quite startled
and scared. They donít dare call themselves master. They would say: ďThereís
only one teacher, only Teacher Li is the Master. We are all students.Ē When
people dare to call themselves master, one reason for it is that their attachment
to fame is acting up, and the second is that they are attempting to undermine
the Fa. In the boundless universe, countless Buddhas, Taos,
Gods, Lords at different levels, and heavenly deities are all studying this
Fa. Who would dare to call himself the master? If you donít cultivate your mind
or stress virtue, could you cultivate in any school? All righteous-law cultivation
ways emphasize virtue. So, how come those messed-up things such as animal spirits
that possess people have gong? At a very low level, they are allowed
to have a little essential energy, and that is used to make people pay back
karma at a very low level. Although you may see people contracting a certain
disease or suffering some form of hardship, they were all actually things owed
by those people and brought on by themselves.

Perhaps Iíve been talking at a bit of a high, profound level here, and some
people donít understand. Let me tell everyone a very simple principle. In the
community of cultivators it is held that peopleís souls cannot be destroyed.
Peopleís souls just cannot be destroyed. When people say that somebody has died,
he has not in fact died at all. From what I see, the person is not dead.
Think about this everyone: arenít the cells of a human body made up of countless
molecules? And arenít the molecules made up of countless atoms? Arenít the atoms
made up of nuclei, electrons, and neutrons? Then going further down, what makes
up atoms are quarks, and as it goes further down there are still neutrinos.
Our modern science can only understand things to this point. Actually it is
still very far from the original matter that composes those thingsóin other
words, the human body has these kinds of microscopic matter. Think about it
everyone, for a human body, when someone draws his last breath and dies, how
could all of his nuclei cease to exist just because he is dead? How could his
atoms, neutrons, and electrons all cease to exist? How could that be possible?
In order for the nuclei to undergo fission, there has to be a great amount of
heat and a powerful collisionóonly then can the fission take place. The conventional
power of ordinary people simply canít make that fission happen. Can the fire
of the crematory cause the nuclei of your body to split and explode? If that
fire truly could make the nuclei of your body explode, then one human bodyís
atomic matter could destroy part of a city, isnít that so? We have discovered
that the life is simply not destroyed. When people die, it is just that what
they have nowóthe body that we see in this material dimensionódies, yet none
of the bodies existing in other dimensions die.

The concept of the dimensions I talked about is not difficult to understand.
Todayís science thinks there are four dimensions. Some people say there are
eleven dimensions. One scientist from the former Soviet Union has pointed out in compelling terms that if
the universe was formed from a big bang, then in that instant it could not have
only exploded into one time-space. He believes there should exist twenty-some
time-spaces simultaneously. They have clearly pointed out that besides this
material dimension and this time of ours, as this time-space exists, there co-exist
other time-spaces. This issue has been clearly pointed out. Many scientists
are studying and delving into this subject. Of course, the forms in which the
cosmosís dimensions exist are extremely complicated. Let me talk about the simplest
form of dimensions. Which dimension do we human beings reside in? As we know,
the largest type of matter that we humans can see is a planet. Planets make
up the Milky Way and other galaxies. The smallest type of matter that we humans
have come into contact with is a molecule. We humans live in this dimension
between molecules and planets. We feel that it is an extremely expansive dimension,
inconceivably large. Then think about it everyone, whatís the dimension that
exists between molecules and atoms like? I would say it too is extremely expansive
and exceptionally big. Of course, you canít stay within these theories of ordinary
people and look at the material world the way ordinary people do if you wish
to understand it. If you enter into another dimension and try to understand
it from there, then you will discover that it too is an extremely vast dimension.

Then what about between atoms and quarks, and between quarks and neutrinos?
What about those extremely microscopic levels? Shakyamuni said that one grain
of sand holds three thousand boundless worlds. His ďthree-thousand boundless
worldsĒ concept says: in our Milky Way galaxy there exist three thousand planets
that have living beings and intelligence like our human race.
He said that one grain of sand contains three thousand boundless worlds. If
what he said is true, think about it everyone, then inside that one grain of
sand, microscopically it is as rich and abundant as the Milky Way galaxy, with
societies and ways of existence similar to those of human beings. As you investigate
further down, within that one grain of sand, arenít there again rivers and sand?
Then doesnít the sand inside that grain of sand also have three thousand boundless
worlds? Then doesnít the sand inside that sand still have three thousand
boundless worlds? Investigating further down, Shakyamuni found it to be endless.
Only when people look while avoiding using the eyes made from molecules are
they able to see the true picture of the universe. The higher the levels reached,
the more one can see things at microscopic levels that are infinitesimally small,
and the more expansively one can see things at macroscopic levels. Shakyamuni
didnít see the end of it, and didnít see how vast the universe was ultimately.
Thatís why in the end, during his final years, he said, ďItís so huge that nothing
is outside itĒóhe didnít know how big it was. ďItís so small that nothing is
inside itĒóso small that he couldnít see the end. Just based on what Shakyamuni
said and what modern physics can understand, I would say that there is no contradiction
there and it makes a lot of sense. Like I said just now, it can be explained
thoroughly at a theoretical level. This is how I see it and what I am teaching.
How could the nuclei all disappear as you draw your last breathóyou would undergo
nuclear fission just from the fire of the crematory? I say itís impossible.
That is why I said, even though the human flesh body dies, the life does not
die. It is also correct for us to say that matter cannot be destroyed, and this
holds true in other dimensions, as well.

Our scientists today believe and todayís humans can only surmise that matter
no longer exists when there is a vacuum. Actually, this is just the understanding
at this stage of the existing human scienceís development. I would say that
in a vacuum there is still matteróthe vacuum itself is matter. Going down to
a more microscopic level, it is no longer visible, but a vacuum is still far
from the microscopic matter that is the origin of life. What is the most microscopic
matter of matter? What is the original matter? I would say that contemporary
scientists, using existing research techniques, wonít be able to understand
it no matter how many more years they spend on it, because the path along which
Western science has been developing is the slowest, and humankind chose the
most imperfect way of developing it. I would say that how ancient Chinaís science developed is pretty
correct. It directly studied the human body, life, and the universe. You know
about aliens, rightóthose flying saucers that fly back and forth, that come
without a trace and leave without a shadow, and that travel at a high speed
and are hard to fathom. A flying saucer can even change its size to be bigger
or smaller. How is that so? It is just that its methods for researching and
developing science and technology are different. It can travel in other dimensions.
Because of the difference in time-space, it can come, get to where itís going,
and leave at will.

When I talked about gong just now, I touched on this subject, that actually
the exercises we practice with physical movements are nothing more than a technique
for strengthening supernormal capabilities, transforming the body, and prolonging
oneís life. But without that energy or gong that determines your level,
your life will not be prolonged. On the other hand, letís talk about things
at the lowest level. If you donít pay attention to the cultivation of xinxing
and you donít stress virtue, you will not even get rid of your illnesses. Can
you heal yourself by doing calisthenics? You canít. Qigong is not a form
of calisthenics. It is a supernormal method for changing a person, which means
you have to hold yourself to the requirements of those supernormal principles.
Some people are pretty devout when they practice the exercises, but once they
go out the door they turn into different people. Out in society they do whatever
they please. They argue and fight with others for petty personal gain; they
even fight with others over the smallest perceived slight. Can their ailments
be cured? They absolutely cannot. I just talked about why peopleís gong
does not increase. Actually this is still just one of the reasons.

There is another reason why gong doesnít increase. The reason why your
health problems arenít cured and your gong doesnít increase is that you
donít know the Fa at high levels. If you donít know the principles at high levels,
then you canít cultivate. For all these years a lot of people have wanted to
cultivate up to high levels, and they have been focused on things like setting
up a bodily crucible or furnace, gathering medicines and making a dan,
and opening the energy channels and the great and small cosmic orbits. Go ahead
and practice, but after an entire lifetime it will still be the same old thing.
Working on qi is not the ultimate goalóthat is nothing. The ultimate
goal of working on qi is to purify the body and build a foundation for
cultivating to higher levels. At the same time, at the level of working on
qi, if you follow the dan method, then you will form dan,
open acupuncture points, and connect a few energy channels. That builds a foundation
at low levels, but it doesnít count as practicing yet. Itís just building that
bit of a foundation and purifying the body, and such is the goal of working
on qi. Some people feel pretty good about themselves because their bodies
have stored qi to capacity. I say youíre just a big qi-bag then,
and you are mistaking it for gong. How could that be gong? The
talk of emitting qi to treat peopleís health problems is a completely
wrong understanding. How could qi heal? Letís think about it calmly and
rationally. Your body has qi, just as the next personís body doesóbetween
ordinary people itís all qi. Itís just that your Laogong acupuncture
point or some other acupuncture point of yours is opened, making it possible
for you to emit or take in qi. Isnít that still qi though? Objects
of the same level donít have any restrictive effect on each other. You have
qi, just like he does. How could you treat othersí health problems just
by emitting qi? It may very well be that his qi, instead, has
treated youóisnít that possible? Only things that are beyond this level can
restrict things on a lower level such as this, and only then can the gong
truly have this effect.

A few years ago, some things happened that caused people to develop an incorrect
perception. There were many qigong masters who appeared in public to
popularize qigong. Even when they didnít have any gong of their
own, they were emitting gong. Why did it seem like they could emit gong?
The emergence of qigong was the result of celestial phenomena. Many masters
didnít even let those involved know about it. You were given a channel, and
when you wanted to emit gong, he would supply it to you. The fake qigong
master who did this was just like a faucet. He hadnít practiced gong,
and he didnít have any gong. When he emitted gong, it was like
turning on a faucet, and it would be supplied to him from the other side. When
he stopped emitting it, the other side was switched off just like a faucet.
He himself didnít have any gong. The goal of giving him gong was
to have him cultivate himself, be a good person, do good deeds, improve himself,
and advance himself. In a society of complicated groups of people, he was to
cultivate his mind and raise his level. But many qigong masters didnít
understand this. They had no idea why this gong had been given to them.
They didnít know where it came from, either, and just knew that it came from
some external source. They thought it was to get rich and become famous as a
qigong master. Now there are very few of these people left. Among those
who remain, someóthe majority, in factóhave animal possession. For a human being
to have that is really frightening. Even though he considers himself to be a
qigong master and is quite well-known, if you take a look at him in a
couple of years, he will be like a vegetableóhis bodyís essence will have been
extracted completely. That is because demons are taking advantage of the loopholes
in the cosmic principles: ďNo loss no gain, I canít give you gong for
nothing. You made all that money and became famous, so I have to take things
from you, isnít that right?Ē So it takes your things, and takes them fair and
square. Animal possession is actually the result of a personís own doing. Some
people, after treating otherís illnesses, will actually feel unwell in this
or that part of their body, and that is illness that people bring upon themselves.

Then what is a dan? As for dan, some people believe they can
lift up a bit of qi from the dan field to do some things. There
is even this misconception: ďWhen I do such and such by lifting the qi
from the dan field, that is qigong.Ē I say thatís trashing qigong.
Qigong is something broad and profound, and is in itself something of
cultivation that follows the Great Law of the universe. Well, if it is qigong
when you do something by lifting the qi from the dan field while
in a daze, then I would ask: what about when you lift a little bit of qi
from the dan field and use the restroom while in a daze? Isnít this notion
trashing qigong? Thatís not the right understanding. There is a great
deal of inner meaning to qigong, and itís not such a simple thing. Consider
a personís danóif you ask me, in essence it is a bomb. When someone cultivates
to the final step, at which point the gong is unlocked, the dan
will explode. In Buddhism, they call it enlightenment. In that instant it will
explode. In this explosion, it bursts open all energy channels of the individual,
all the acupuncture points in the body, and the Mingmen point, releasing the
supernormal capabilities. The Third Eye is blasted open to an extremely high
point of the level you are at, and you will see the truth of the universe that
exists at your level. This is what itís for. It is just a bomb, without any
other use. You know that after a monk who has cultivated well dies, sarira
can be found upon cremation. A few days before the monk dies, the dan
will explode. With a boom it will explode, and he will understand everything.
But he doesnít talk about it with ordinary people, so no one knows and others
canít sense what has happened. Once the dan explodes and shatters, the
pieces in this dimension are like stones. We donít cultivate dan. Why
donít we cultivate dan? We believe that dan is immobile, and aside
from being able to hold a little energy it doesnít have much use. For a monk,
after he dies and is cremated, there are sarira. They are lustrous, very
hard, and have energy. Scientific tests cannot ascertain what they are made
of. They are a combination of matter gathered from other dimensions and matter
made from our virtue being transformed into gong, so scientists right
now canít recognize what substance it is. It is not a substance of our ordinary
peopleís society. Some people try and force an explanation or just give whatever
explanation they can think of, saying that a dan is teeth or bones. Isnít
that giving whatever random explanation they can think of? How come ordinary
people donít have them when they are cremated? Why are monks and cultivators
able to have them after cremation?

Just now I talked about the principles of truly cultivating to high levels.
It doesnít matter which school or branch you are in. Some people may be reminded
of the old Taoist monks that cultivate in the mountains, or cultivators that
follow the Buddha schoolís method of cultivation while in isolation, some of
whom you might have even taken as masters in the past. Since these people didnít
follow Zhen-Shan-Ren in cultivation, how were they able to cultivate
to that point? Let me tell you how such a person cultivates. He suffers a lot,
and it takes him many, many years of cultivation to gain even a little bit of
gong. However, because he cultivated deep in the mountains and forests,
away from ordinary peopleís society, his gong was not locked. When cultivating
among ordinary people, gong is locked. Even in cultivation through gradual
enlightenment, a part or half of it has to be locked, so you donít have such
great abilities. Even when your level is very high, you canít use it. Deep in
the mountains and forests though, when one doesnít live in secular society and
has no involvement with things of ordinary people, oneís cultivation is all
done open and unlocked. If such a person has even a little gong, his
abilities will appear to be quite great, because they are open. Actually his
cultivation is quite arduous. He can only gain a little bit of gong over
a long period of time, but he doesnít know this.

I have said there are eighty-four thousand cultivation ways that have been
laid out, and in the middle is the Great Way cultivation,
Dafa cultivation. On the fringes, since it offers salvation to all sentient
beings, all kinds of people come to study it. When one cultivates to a certain
point and is enlightened, then that is as high as he can cultivateóhe canít
cultivate any higher. This was determined by his own foundationóhe is enlightened
when he cultivates to that level. There are some that cultivate this high and
become enlightened (Teacher gestures with his hands); some cultivate
this high and are enlightened; some cultivate this high and are enlightened;
some cultivate this high and are enlightened; some become enlightened when they
have only cultivated to a very low level. Once the person becomes enlightened,
he sees the principles at his level but no higher. Since he has cultivated that
high, he can only see principles at that level, yet he takes disciples just
the same and teaches the principles he has seen and understood. Of the eighty-four
thousand cultivation ways, there are many low-level ways. The closer to the
fringes, the more numerous and complicated the teachings are. The closer to
the central Great Way and Dafa cultivation, the simpler
the cultivation isócultivation is pretty fast when its essence is grasped. We
are bringing people along rather quickly. Why is it so fast? Some studentsí
changes and the growth of their gong are just unbelievable. Had you not
attained the Fa, you might not have been able to go beyond the level of qi
in your lifetime.

In my nine-lecture class, so long as you can cultivate, I will push you through
in the nine lectures. People are able to break through levels extremely rapidly
in the cultivation process. Many of those that cultivate the Tao have told me
this, and I have asked them how the gong of my students compared with
theirs. They think that itís unbelievable. The growth of this gong really
is unbelievable, because we are cultivating while grasping the essence and cultivating
by focusing on the mind. This is the most important, and that is why it is extremely
fast. Those that cultivate in the mountains, as with some monks, cultivate over
a long period of time, suffer a lot of hardship, and they think that their cultivation
advances because of the suffering involved. Actually, it is because over a long
period of time they slowly wore away the things they were attached to among
ordinary peopleóonly then could they improve. Right from the beginning, we cultivate
by targeting peopleís minds. Your attachments of jealousy, elationóall kinds
of attachmentsówe target these things in your cultivation, and it is these we
get rid of during cultivation, so it is very fast. Thatís all I will say on
this topic.

There are many people who want to study Falun Dafa but havenít taken the classes.
I can give you a brief introduction. Our Falun Dafa is a cultivation practice
that cultivates both the mind and body. A true mind and body cultivation practice
is unique in that the changes in the human body happen very quickly. At the
same time, the outer appearance of a practitioner is very different from ordinary
people. There are many veteran students of Falun Dafa, even the elderly, whose
skin has become delicate and smooth, white and rosy-red in color, and their
bodies are strong and healthy. In the past, it was very tiring for them to climb
up stairs, but now they can climb several stories without even becoming short
of breath. Their hearts donít race, and they feel good, not tired. In the past
they were tired after walking just a few steps, and now when they ride a bike
it feels like someone is pushing them. This is the situation, and I ask our
veteran students here: isnít that really how it is? (Audience answers in
unison: ďYes!Ē) This is a very common occurrence. Iím not talking about
what happened to just a few select students. This is very common, as true mind
and body cultivation practices can accomplish this. The outer appearance changes
quite a lot. The wrinkles on many older folksí faces become few and light, or
even disappear. At the same time, they also experience great physiological changes.
Due to our limited time here, I wonít talk more about this.

In addition, our Falun Cultivation Dafa is a most unique practice. No one ever
taught it in the past. Of course, I was too absolute there. It is, rather, that
it just hasnít been taught during this era of human civilization. In prehistoric
times, going way back in prehistory, it was the main way of saving people in
human society, but it has not been taught in this human civilization. So this
Dafa is completely different from the cultivation theories of all those various
types of qigong currently in existence. What people cultivate today are
basically dan methods. Whatís meant by dan methods? It means that
you want to form a dan. This applies to Buddhist monks in the temples
as wellóalthough they donít have qigong exercises, they too form dan.
The sarira that appear after cremation are from the explosion of dan.
Taoists are the same way, and so are the cultivation methods passed on through
folklore; they are all basically dan methods. You might know that in
Tantrism, it doesnít seem like they form dan, but at a fundamental level
theirs is also a dan method. The chakras they cultivate are also
dan. So those wheels of theirs are turned by the mindís will, and they
donít turn if there is no will to direct them. And those wheels of theirs are
intangible, while this Falun of ours is material.

This Falun from my set of exercises is very difficult to obtain if you cultivate
on your own, of course. We have formed it only after going through so many generations
of people. In the past it was passed on from generation to generation through
a single disciple, and it has never been passed to outsiders. In this special
historic environment, I have now brought it out in the open to pass on to people.
Some students say, ďTeacher, please give me a Falun.Ē Some students write notes
saying, ďTeacher, although I havenít attended the classes, I will give you some
money as tuition. Would you please give me a Falun?Ēómeaning that they want
to buy a wheel. Let me tell everyone, this Falun is extremely precious, priceless
in fact. For a person who lacks a predestined connection, it wouldnít matter
how many hundreds of millions he spent, he still couldnít buy it. For those
with a predestined connection, they can get it without spending a penny. The
reason that we can bring this to the public today is that we see that people
still have a final bit of Buddha nature left. Actually the results of teaching
it have been pretty good. It is extremely precious, and you have to be a cultivator
before you can attain it. Once this wheel is given to you, it will keep turning
twenty-four hours a day without stopping, always turning like this. It will
turn both clockwise and counterclockwise. When turning clockwise it will automatically
absorb energy from the universe and transform the energy. The energy it transforms
will provide what is needed for all parts of your body. When it turns counterclockwise,
it can give off energy. The energy that is given off takes out the discarded
matter created by your body, and then absorbs new energy matter. It is purposeful
and selective, for it is an intelligent being. A person simply canít do such
things by manually pouring qi in from the top of the head or gathering
qi [as is common in other practices], because he hasnít as much power
as [the Falun] doesóhe simply canít do it. So [the Falun] is selective and is
an intelligent being, and can do things that people could never hope to do.

After the Falun is installed, it wonít come to a stop at any time. It is always
turning as I described, always refining you. This forms the situation that is
called ďthe Fa cultivating the person.Ē In other qigong practices, only
when you practice does gong grow, and so people try to lengthen the time
for which they practice; if you arenít practicing, then the gong isnít
growing. But in my Falun Dafa, when you are not practicing, it still grows.
When you practice, you are strengthening the mechanisms, strengthening these
mechanisms and the Falun that I have given you. You are maintaining and strengthening
it, and that is all the effect you can have. But true cultivation involves this
entire system of Fa. Itís not just the Falun that is cultivating: the mechanisms
given to you on the outside are at work, the Falun is turning, and all the mechanisms
inside the body are automatically cultivating.

The cultivation that we talk aboutótrue cultivation practiceóstresses cultivation,
while doing the exercises is a different aspect of it. As long as you stress
the cultivation of your xinxing, treat yourself as a true cultivator
and restrain your actions in ordinary peopleís society accordingly, then your
gong will grow. And this, together with the movements that you practice
every day, means that you are completely and holistically practicing this system
of mine. The movements are very simple and there are only five exercises, but
on a macroscopic level they holistically control tens of thousands of things
involved in your refinement. Some people ask a qigong master, ďWhat does
this movement do, what does that one do?Ē Some qigong masters canít answer.
Why canít they? Such things are not easy to explain. [In our discipline] there
are tens of thousands of things that need to be cultivated in the human body,
and every movement is macroscopically directing many things that are being refined.
ďWhat are they doing,Ē you ask? How should it be explained to you? They refine
everything. The movements seem simple, but were they complicated it wouldnít
necessarily be a good thingóthe Great Way is the simplest and easiest. The
small ways have complicated movements. Cultivation does not depend on the complexity
of the movements themselves, but on the things of a given cultivation way that
are given to you in another dimension. Regardless of whether those things [given
to you] are complicated, the movements themselves are not.

Perhaps some people are feeling that they donít quite understand what I just
said, thinking: ďOthers talk about forming dan and that this is energy,
and when monks are cremated, there are sarira. These seem believable,
because they are still something tangible. But the Falun you talk about, which
keeps turning in the belly, isnít so easy to believe. How can it be alive? How
can it turn?Ē Let me ask you something in return. You know that this Milky Way
galaxy and the universe are turning. The Milky Way galaxy is rotating, the nine
planets are orbiting around the sun, and our Earth is spinning by itself. Who
pushes it? What is applying force to it? Let me tell you, it exists
in the form of a spinning mechanism, and our Falun also has this kind of a spinning
mechanism, so it automatically turns, unceasingly. Some of you have not attended
the class yet, and I can have you experience the feeling of the Falun turning.
Letís all stick out one hand and lay the hand flat. Donít use force with your
hand, but keep your palm as straight as possible. Good, I will now send out
a Falun to each of you, and have it turn in the palm of your hand so that you
can tell for yourself. Is it turning? (ďItís turning!Ē) For those upstairs,
is it turning? (ďItís turning!Ē) Okay, that was just to let everyone
experience it. A few people didnít feel it turning, but their hand felt cool,
or in some cases hot. The different sensations have to do with of the karmic
field of your body. For those who sensed cold, often their bodies are not very
healthy, and for some, it was because they have karma in the area of the hand.
But it doesnít matter if you felt the turning or not, you will have a hot or
cold sensation all the same. Of course, the vast majority of you can feel it
turning.

A practice such as our Falun Dafa is well suited for modern people to study
and practice. Of course, once Falun Dafa is taught to the public, it can contribute
to the elevation of societyís moral character as a whole and the moral character
of its people. The facts speak for themselves. If you, an ordinary person, a
human being, want to cultivate, then you have to stress the cultivation of xinxing.
If you do stress xinxing cultivation, in ordinary peopleís society it
will certainly manifest as your being a good personóthis is for sure. Some people
say that their style of qigong can, like ours, allow you to practice
for a long time, and they are always in a dazed state. I would say thatís not
practicing; that is no more than a matter of curing illnesses and keeping fit.
Itís just a state in working on qi, and thatís not practicing. Also,
even if it truly were practicing, go ahead, give it a try: if youíre in a daze,
can you do your job well? Can you complete well the work your boss has given
to you? Even if you are self-employed, or you run your own company, isnít there
still the matter of contributing to society? For those of you who work in an
office, if you are in a daze while you sit there, how can you write your materials
and such? If you canít complete the work well, it may even lead to danger! If
a worker works while in a daze he might, while not paying attention, stick his
hand into the machineís gears. If you work at a place high off the ground and
are in a daze, you might take a fall. Doesnít that create a safety issue at
the workplace? That way of doing it canít possibly reach the goal of a prolonged
qigong exercise time. But our practice truly does solve this problem.
We have to assimilate to the nature of the universe and be good peopleóonly
this is the cultivatorsí standard. Some of our students know that our gong
grows quite rapidly. In our practice, we donít pay particular attention to trivial
matters and donít have many rules. Because we are cultivating the Great
Way, cultivating Dafa, there are very few rules.
We donít pay attention to which direction to face while practicing, or what
time to practice and which direction to face. Thatís because what our Falun
Dafa cultivates is quite vast. In this historical period, in this human civilization,
there hasnít been anything that has cultivated something so vast. If you donít
believe me you can look for yourself at the situation before I started teaching:
those cultivation methods mimicked animalsí movements, and that applied to even
those of famous people, sages, or Taoists. Regardless of whether someone [was
cultivating to be] a Tao, a God, or a Buddha, it was pretty limited all the
same.

Our Falun Dafa practice follows the fundamental principles of the universeís
development. Because the Falun was formed according to the fundamental principles
of the universeís development, it takes the highest nature of the universeóZhen-Shan-Renóto
be the guide in our cultivation. We can say that we are following the highest
things in cultivation, cultivating in such a great Fa, just like cultivating
the universe. And we donít worry about things such as facing in certain directions.
Think about it everyone, in the context of the universe, what happens to oneís
directional orientation? The universe itself is rotating, our Milky Way galaxy
is rotating, the nine planets are orbiting around the sun, and the earth itself
is rotatingóso where is north, south, east, or west? After all that turning,
everything is muddled up, and there is simply no concept of direction. It is
only something that people designated on this Earth, and it was done from the
human vantage point. Since we cultivate such a vast thingóitís just like cultivating
the universeóof course there is no such thing as a directional orientation.
So whichever direction you face when you practice is the same as facing all
directions. Whichever direction you face for practicing, to put it simply, is
the same as facing north, south, east, and west simultaneously. So we donít
worry about direction at all. It is because everything is rotating and turning.

We also donít worry about the time. Why donít we worry about the time? Many
qigong practices say itís good to practice at zishi
(11PMĖ1AM) or at chenshi (7AMĖ9AM). Of course, we think that the time periods
of zishi and chenshi are a bit better, but weíre not limiting
it to these small periods of time for practice. In this vast universe, the zishi
of the Earth may be good, but in other dimensions the zishi might not
necessarily be good, so we donít limit things in this regard. But there is something
beneficial about zishi, as it is rather quiet at that time. Deep into
the night and when people are quiet is suitable for practicing. Some people
also say that chenshi is a good time for practicing. Of course, for the
same reason, we donít worry about specific time periods. However, we do encourage
getting up in the morning and practicing the exercises together, or practicing
together at night. Why? Because if you practice the exercises in a group, when
there is a problem you can discuss with each other and solve the problem together.
Discussing with each other is beneficial to everyoneís collective improvement.
Thatís why we have chosen this form of collectively practicing the exercises
as a group. Of course, some people have to go to work, and they only have time
in the morning and evening, so we practice the exercises in the morning and
evening. Actually, every minute that you donít practice, you are being refined
by the gong; your practicing is to strengthen the mechanisms that I installed
for you. We use the principle of the movements following the mechanisms. The
hands and movements are just strengthening those mechanisms.

We also donít require ending the practice in a specific way. The reason for
this is that there is no concept of ending the practice in a specific way. In
other qigong practices, after finishing the exercise they take the gong
back in and retract the energy field given off around the person, and the practice
is stopped. We donít have this concept, because we are practicing twenty-four
hours a day; there is no concept of bringing it to a stop. That is why we donít
talk about ending the practice in a specific way. Then some people may ask,
ďIf Iím there practicing and all of a sudden the phone rings, or all of a sudden
someone comes knocking at the door, what should I do?Ē Then you just get up
and greet the guests, or go and get the phoneóitís no problem. Why is that?
Thatís because although there is a field that exists around people who
practice qigong, your Falun is conscious [and cognizant of it]. When
your mind thinks about doing something else, the Falun knows that you are not
practicing anymore, and it will immediately turn clockwise and instantly take
in the field that was outside your body. This is something you couldnít will
to happen even if you tried. If you try to hold the qi and pour it into
the top of the head, no matter how hard you try to hold it, you will still lose
some qi. But [the Falun] doesnít lose any, because it has this element
that checks things. Just now I briefly talked about the unique characteristics
of this practice of Falun Dafa. Of course, there are many more and even better
things, but we can only talk about them in class, because we have to teach them
systematically.

Next Iíll talk about another issue, which is how people of different social
classes practice. You might have heard a saying before about how only those
who are poor to the point of having no possessions and no money can cultivate.
People from different religions all talk about the principles of their own schools.
No matter how much teaching there is in Buddhism, it still centers around the
Buddhist principles enlightened to and validated by Shakyamuni, which were passed
down by later generations with some errors. Taoism is limited to its principles
of the Taiji. No one has completely explained this universe with clarity. Only
when you go beyond this boundary and talk about the entire universe can you
clearly explain the Fa of the universe, the nature of the universe, and the
essence of Gods, Taos, and Buddhas. So they all just talk about
their own schools. In addition, there are many branches in the Tao school and
many branches in the Buddha school, and they all talk about the principles of
their own branch. We have broken through all of this to explain the truths of
the universe, and done so in conjunction with modern science and the science
of the human body. Then what are the principles we are talking about? Perhaps
you have heard what was said in religions, or what Jesus said about it being
harder for a rich person to enter Heaven than for a camel to pass through the
eye of a needle. He was talking about how hard it is for rich people to cultivate.
But we say that it is difficult to cultivateóthat doesnít mean that rich
people cannot cultivate. You canít look at things superficially. Although
itís hard for rich people to give up their money and wealth, we look at the
core and not the surface. What I teach is that genuine cultivation does not
equate to really having you toss away your material possessions, but rather,
it is the thoughts that are attached to money that have to be given upóyou should
be able to see money as unimportant and take it lightly.

Iíll talk now about how people of different social classes cultivate. Let me
tell you, the reason there are people, and that people can live in the world,
is just for one word: qing![6] Your happiness, anger, grief, and pleasure; what you
like to do or donít like to do; what you like to eat or donít like to eat; whichever
person you like or donít like; feelings for family, feelings for friends, feelings
of love, feelings for parentsóeverything of everythingóeverything of human beings
comes from this qing. Then it follows that qing can produce every
kind of attachment. When something affects this qing of yours, you can
develop jealousyópeople just live for qing. Then when a person is actually
cultivating, he has to get rid of this attachment, to gradually wear it down.
Itís even better if you can completely get rid of it, because it is a manifestation
of your level. You should gradually come to take these things, things that ordinary
people are attached to, more and more lightly. Others can see that ordinary
people are attached to fame and fortune the most, and believe that those people
who pursue these two things find it the hardest to cultivate. Pursuing ďfameĒ
includes pursuing social status, a high-ranking job, and power, while pursuing
ďfortuneĒ is mainly about money and material gain. So itís thought that cultivation
is the most difficult for those who pursue these two kinds of things. Actually,
although cultivation is difficult for them, it is still possibleóitís not to
say that they canít cultivate. Do you have to throw away all of your
money before you can cultivate? Thatís not the case. True cultivation doesnít
depend on whether you are wealthy or not. According to the principles of the
Buddha school, wealth was created by your own good fortune, which was a result
of your having virtue, and so you should have it. Being wealthy is not in and
of itself wrong.

What we teach is how to be a good person at your level and take lightly material
things, desires, fame, and gain. If you are wealthy but you donít see it as
something important and you take it very lightly, even to the point where in
your heart you donít care about money at all, then itís no problem. Even if
you have so much money there is no room left to store it in your house, or the
beds are padded with money, then I would say that it doesnít matter. Cultivation
is about cultivating peopleís minds, not actually getting rid of some material
thing. If you have a high position in the government but you take the high position
itself lightly, and you understand that however high the government position
you have, you are still a civil servant who works for the good of the people
and for others, then arenít you a good official? Of course, this human society
is complicated. At every level, if you can balance these things properly and
follow the requirements of the Fa, you will manage to be a good person and a
cultivator.

Letís talk about people of different social classes. Ordinary people have ordinary
peopleís conflicts. For a regular office worker, he has conflicts with others
regarding personal gain, while those in higher positions have interpersonal
conflicts with their peers and plot against each other. People in even higher
positions have situations of conflict at their levels. The key is: at your level,
in that environment of yours, you manage to take the pursuit of personal gain
lightly, you manage to be a good person, do more good things, do good deeds
for others, and improve yourself. Cultivation can be done at every level. We
have transcended the principles talked about in all religions and schools to
teach this. The point isnít to make you really lose some material thing, or
to say you can cultivate only when you have nothingóitís not like that. It is
a matter of whether or not you can take it lightly. Isnít it true that the focus
of our cultivation is the mind? We have reached the goal if the attachment is
gone. If there were really nothing left in human society and it became a primitive
society, then I would say thatís not right, is it? The reality is that humanity
will continue to move forward in its development.

In the past many people asked me: how should we cultivate? Of course, contemporary
society is very complicated, and some things we canít speak too specifically
about. So just follow the Fa in your actions. If everything is explained to
you, then there is nothing for you to cultivate, nothing for you to enlighten
to. On specific issues, you have to enlighten to them yourself and cultivate
yourself. Only then do you have something to cultivate, and only then can you
improve. If it is all taught explicitly, there is no room for your improvement.
If everything were laid out for you, then you would just have to follow it.
People are in a maze to begin with, and it is meant for you to enlighten while
in this maze. If a person needs to see everything before he will cultivate and
enlighten, then I would say this person wonít be able to enlighten. The reason
itís so hard for an Enlightened Being to cultivate and improve, the reason why
he is always at that level, is that in his setting there is no suffering for
him to go through. Things are so great everywhere and he is not in a maze, so
what is there for him to enlighten to? But ordinary people are in a maze, and
they canít see the true picture or the true principles of things.

People are all fighting for practical gains and benefits. If a good person
comes along who doesnít care about these things as others do, who wonít fight
for these things, and who takes both fame and fortune very lightly, then this
person is already quite outstanding. Although among ordinary people this person
doesnít seem like much, looking from a high level, this person sparkles like
gold. In the past, people said that those with high-level gong would
look for their disciples. Itís not the disciple that would look for the master,
but the master who would look for the disciple. Itís the same principle: these
are the kinds of people that are sought after. Ordinary people are all lost
among themselves, and when they think that what they do is something good, looking
from high levels it is clear that itís the opposite. People all live for themselves,
and they are selfish. So these things that you are attached to are for nothing
but satisfying your selfishness. If you want to cultivate, all this has to be
gotten rid of. To put it plainly, cultivation is about getting rid of human
attachments, and here, I am purely talking about the fundamental things. Cultivation
is about getting rid of every kind of attachment you have, which fundamentally
means cultivating your mind. I would say that the cultivation of our school
is directed right at peopleís minds, and we teach the practical points and the
key aspects.

Thereís another issue I would like to talk aboutóafter all, there are many
veteran students here, and this conference is for the purpose of summarizing
things as well. There are some people that want to come and cause damage to
Dafa, but they are very few, only a very, very few individuals. And itís not
like with other styles of qigong, where out of desire for money people
from one qigong practice fight and clash with people from other practices,
and they even fight and clash with each other within their own practice. They
simply donít care about xinxing and create a foul atmosphere. Everyone
here knows that Falun Dafa is a pure landóI dare to say this. Whatís the mindset
our people have towards each other? Everyone is helping each other out. Whatís
it like when Falun Dafa practitioners get together? At our class in Guangzhou, some practitioners didnít have any
money left, and people donated hundreds of yuan to help them out. If
you are in other qigong practices, such things are unheard of. Here there
are so many good people doing good deedsóit happens all the time, itís extremely
common. Isnít it a pure land? Since we directly cultivate peopleís minds and
stress xinxing cultivation, we will definitely have such results. You
should all stress cultivating your xinxing in the cultivation that lies
ahead.

At the same time, if you want to grasp this Fa wellóand I would say that you
have to have a thorough understanding of this book and this Faóyou need to study
the Fa. You shouldnít just do the movements. If you do the movements all day
and forget everything that the Teacher said, then you wonít be able to cultivate.
What would there be to guide you? So you should all read the book a lot, study
the Fa and read the book like you do the movements daily, and read the book
every day. Only then can you be guided to be a good person, only then will your
xinxing improve through cultivation, and only then will your gong
increase. If you say you just want to do the movements, and you do them from
morning until night, you might be exhausted but your gong still wonít
increase. Though the Falun is indeed turning automatically, your doing the exercises
is to strengthen the mechanism, and when the Falun just turns and prepares the
things that were developed from gong to be moved upwards, the nature
of the universe still restricts you. And if it doesnít allow the increase, whatís
the use? Therefore you must improve your xinxing, and only then can your
gong increase rapidly. You must take this issue seriously.

Some students also bring up this question: how should our students pass on
this practice in the future? I think I can also talk a bit about this issue
with everyone. Before I talk about it though, I would like to clarify one thing
for everyone. For those practitioners who havenít attended the class and who
have studied or practiced on their own, all you have to do is practice while
following the standards of a practitioner. Thereís no need for me to personally
give you a Falun and Law Body, as you will get everything. The reason for this
is that a student of mine taught you, and all of my students have the protection
of my Law Bodies. You all know that this isnít some kind of superstitionómy
Law Body is a life that was formed by gong during my cultivation and
it has the same image as myself. He also has the same Fa and poweróitís just
as strong. That is what a Law Body is. I have countless Law Bodies that can
protect the students, so everyone that truly cultivates will be protected. Then
if you, as our student, want to study this, then when another student teaches
you this Law Body will naturally adjust your body, and will naturally install
a Falun and energy mechanisms for you. What should be given to you will be given
to you. But you must be a true cultivator in order to attain these things. After
installing these supernormal things for you, if no one were there to protect
you, you would be in danger. What would we do then? I still have Law Bodies
that will protect you, this is guaranteed. Then how do you pass on the practice
from now on? I will be very clear about this, as well. The assistance centers
and every student all over the country can spread the practice, but collecting
fees is not allowed. Nobody can charge any fees, not even the assistance centers.
You should pass on the practice as volunteers. True cultivation is about accumulating
virtue, not pursuing fame and fortune. That is how it should be spread. If you
really insist on doing thisóusing Falun Dafa to make money, that isóthen you
wonít have anything left. My Law Body will take everything back, because you
are not allowed to use these things to undermine this Fa. This issue has been
talked about very clearly, so you donít have to worry about whether others can
obtain a Falun and energy mechanisms when you teach them the exercises. They
will have those things just the same. My Law Bodies know it when you pass on
the practice.

If there is no one to teach a person, can he learn by reading the book? Can
he attain it? He can attain it just the same. For example, whether it be Shakyamuni,
Lao Zi, or other Enlightened Beings, they left this world many years ago, but
the students in those disciplines are still cultivating. In ancient times some
people did succeed in cultivation. Why? Because the Law Body was there. Many
of our students may have seen this. On my pictures that are in the books, it
may seem like the eyes can move. Some people may have seen the body move, or
there may be other feelings, so some say there are Law Bodies there. Itís not
just on those pictures. Since there are new students here, I wonít speak at
too high a level. Let me tell you: As long as you study it, be it through the
book, the videotapes, or the audiotapes, you can attain it just the same. The
problem arises if you donít cultivate. If you just do the movements and expect
to get these supernormal things, then itís absolutely impossible. Only when
you truly cultivate can you attain these things. The issue I just talked about
was for our veteran students, but itís also beneficial for new students to hear
it.

Thereís another issue that I will talk about, which is doing healing. Many
people are very obstinate, very stubborn. Even some western medical doctors
have these kinds of thoughts. They say, if you can use supernormal capabilities
to heal people, then what do you need hospitals for? They are implying that
they donít believe supernormal capabilities can be used to heal people. But
what they say is not reasonable, not very rational at all. Then, can supernormal
capabilities actually heal people?

We have discovered that one who cultivates at a superficial level canít cure
the root of the problem, but he can cure the surface. A person whose level is
a bit higher can delay this illness of yours, push it back, so that it may feel
better for the time being. But after some years it will come back, turn into
other forms of misfortune, or be transferred onto friends or family membersóhe
can do things like that.

To truly cure illness, a person
must have that kind of ability, in other words be able to eliminate karma for
people. But this isnít something that a normal person can do. It has to be a
person with such an ability, and it can only be done for those who are true
cultivators. Doing it casually for ordinary people is absolutely not permitted;
it would mean that after a person does bad things, he doesnít have to pay for
it.

Thereís a principle here, which is that gong can heal people. Over such
a long period of time, so many people have cured their ailments through tempering
themselves, or cultivators have cured their ailments. This is something everyone
can see and is simply undeniableóit can indeed heal people. If you take something
of high-level cultivation and use it to fix health problems at low levels for
people, it will of course have amazing results. Some patients started to pay
attention to virtue. Some people are very good in ordinary peopleís society,
so after practicing, their health problems can get better. But cultivation is
a supernormal thing, so it follows supernormal principles. It is absolutely
prohibited for you to use it to disrupt ordinary peopleís society on a large
scale. If qigong were used to open a hospital, a clinic, or a wellness
center, its healing results would drop off drastically. This is for sure.

As you know, those with true abilities see a patient only once to heal him.
Eliminating too much karma is not allowed. The disease is basically cured during
that one time. When the gong is emitted, the hand method is irrelevantówhat
does the hand method matter? The gong can be emitted, and it can go through
any part of the body. Once the gong is emitted, the disease is cured.
Originally, there werenít any hand methods, but to deceive people, fake qigong
masters made up many haphazard hand methods for healing people, such as expelling,
purging, nourishing, hand grabbing, qi needle, electric needle, light
treatment, and others. Actually it doesnít matter how a cultivator emits his gong, and
the hand method doesnít matteróitís not like that at all. All of these were
made up by some people in order to make money. When it comes to true cultivation,
this is how things are fundamentally.

Ordinary peopleís illnesses canít be removed casually. Once a hospital is established
for qigong treatments, the healing effects will drop off drastically.
It just doesnít work anymore. This is because supernormal things canít be used
casually to disrupt ordinary human society on a large scale. Ordinary people
are just on this level of ordinary people, governed by the Fa of the lowest
level. Isnít it a serious matter if you use the Fa of high levels to interfere
with the principles of ordinary people and the Fa at this ordinary peopleís
level? It is actually undermining the principles of the universe and those of
the dimension of ordinary people. So if you really did set up a hospital, the
results of your treatments must be similar to ordinary peopleís hospitals. Just
take a look aroundóany hospital or wellness center that uses qigong to
do healing will take several treatment sessions to cure an illness. Itís ridiculous
for qigong treatment to take several sessions. It shows that its healing
effects arenít good. In some regards they arenít even as good as treatment at
regular hospitals. This problem will occur, because qigong treatment
is something supernormal.

When people who are in the process of cultivation develop a heart of compassion
and can see the suffering of all beings, and have themselves gone beyond the
Three Realms, when their gong is relatively high, they are permitted
to help some people in individual cases. But this isnít something to be done
casually. When a person cultivates to very high levels, he is able to cure many
peopleís ailments in an instant. But once someone has cultivated to this level,
he discovers that you canít casually do things about peopleís health problemsóhe
can see such a principle. Sickness karma is all connected to things that happened
in the past, and everyone is paying back karma. Your casually eliminating it
means that people can do bad things and not pay back the karma; it has this
principle behind it. Some may say that qigong treatments do temporarily
alleviate the suffering at hand to some extent. But arenít hospitals the same
way? It is just postponing it for you, and it canít take away that karma.

Actually, the health problems weíre talking about are problems in another dimension
that manifest in this dimension, such as something abnormal growing somewhere
on the body or a body part becoming inflamed, leading to viruses and bacteria
being present. Smaller amounts of karma with great density are viruses when
manifesting in this dimension; greater amounts of karma manifest as bacteria.
We see it as just being these things that exist in other dimensions. How can
you cure it at the root when you canít break through this dimension? Karma is
that black substance that comes in clusters. So in the community of cultivators,
we donít talk about health problems, just karmaóitís just this issue. Like I
just said, removing a disease like that on a fundamental level isnít something
that can be done casually. Out of compassion and under special circumstances,
it is okay for you to help people out a bit. But you canít do it for personal
fame, money, or some kind of gainóthereís this principle.

Some people may ask, isnít healing done for the sake of saving all beings?
Isnít it doing a good thing? In the Fa-ending period the Buddhist scriptures
have been misinterpreted. You can look through the Tripitaka[7]
and see if it says that healing people is saving all beings. It doesnít say
that at all. Saving all beings refers to guiding you up to high levels from
this environment of suffering of ordinary people, and this is so you will not
be here suffering ever again. This is what it means. This is truly saving all
beings, as it fundamentally resolves peopleís problems. Todayís phony qigong
masters tell people that doing healings for ordinary people is ďsaving all beings,Ē
but thatís a lie they fabricated in order to make money. Buddhas donít save
people for this purpose. Think about it everyone, if treating illnesses for
people is the same as saving people, well, wouldnít you say that a Buddha is
quite powerful? A high-level great Buddha, whose foot is bigger than the earth,
could eliminate all ailments of the entire human race with a wave of his hand.
Why doesnít he do it? How great would that beósaving all beings like that. People
are just this wayóif you incur a debt of karma, you have to pay it backóthis
principle canít be undermined. A person has to pay back the karma that he creates.
If you want to cultivate, you have to cultivate your xinxing while paying
back your karma, going back like that. Letís use an example. If a person wants
to go abroad, to go to a pretty rich country and enjoy good fortune, then those
debts you owe in this country have to all be paid off first. How can you just
brush them off and leaveóhow could that work? You have to return it all before
you can go. Along the same lines, if you want to cultivate you just have to
sufferóthereís such a principle. Of course for Dafa cultivators, we can eliminate
some for you. If a portion is not eliminated for you, then you canít cultivate.
People have come to this point after having karma rolled up over karma and the
obstacle is too great, so a portion of your karma must be eliminated for you
before you can cultivate. I just talked about healing people and touched on
its principles for you while I was on the subject.

Then why do some qigong masters claim that if you study their practices,
in three, five or ten days you can do healing? You can be a qigong master
they claim, and after taking part in a class you are all qigong doctors.
Why do most of them fail to accomplish this? And why can a minority actually
cure some health problems? Whatís the reason behind it? The reason they canít
do it is because they are not permitted to violate the principles of ordinary
people. Then why can a few individuals treat a disease with their hands and
actually cure a few people? It makes them so happy, and they believe even more
in that so-called qigong masteróhow does this happen? Iíll tell you,
those few people have been deceived. Those so-called qigong masters that
do such things are often possessed by animals or spirits, and those things too
have some gongóif it didnít have any gong it couldnít heal peopleóand
it even has abilities. It gives you a few messages and a bit of energy, but
that energy gets consumed. If you treat one illness, a portion of it gets consumed;
if you treat some more it will continue to be consumed; and after treating a
few more itís gone. But from then on your attachment to healing others becomes
extremely strong. Once the energy is all used up, if you try to use it to give
treatments it wonít work.

Once it doesnít work anymore, another problem will occur. What problem is that?
If you continue to give treatments, you will be using your own foundation and
trading it with other people in exchange for illness. What does that mean? This
universe has a principle called ďno loss, no gain.Ē If you want to gain you
have to lose. Even if what you gained is something badósince you canít heal
others, you insist on wanting the other personís ailment curedówhat happens
then? You will get that ailment while the patient gets better, since you really
want his ailment to be cured. Some people want to cure others even if it means
getting the ailment themselves, but this doesnít arise from compassion. He just
wants the other person to feel better because he is afraid of losing his reputation.
Canít you see how seriously these qigong masters are harming people?
Look how strong the attachment to fame and fortune is, and how it causes such
great harm to people. He only had this thought out of the fear of losing his
reputation, and he just has to make that health problem go away, even to the
point that he himself is willing to get it. Okay, if you want it, then you will
get it. But in such an exchange, you canít get something for nothing. Even though
what the other person has is an illness, it can be dissolved away and turned
into virtue, since matter isnít ever destroyed; it can transform in such a way.
So if you take it away, then you will give him virtue in exchange. The only
thing used for exchange over on the other side is virtue. So he gives the virtue
to the other person, and gets the disease in returnóhe has done the stupidest
thing. Virtue is so precious!

In the past, religions talked about something, and so did the elders: donít
worry if you go through a bit more suffering in this life, do more good things
and collect virtue, and in the next life you will have good fortune. It implies
that this virtue can bring you money or a high position in the government. Actually,
we have found that it is a kind of exchange. When you want to get that money,
you canít get it unless you have virtue to trade for it. Some people can make
a lot of money at once in business, while others try very hard yet gain nothing.
The reason is that the latter person has little or no virtue, so he canít trade
for it. For some people, let me tell you, if your virtue is too little, you
wonít get anything even when begging for food. You have to give others virtue,
and then they will give you food; there is an exchange there. So if you donít
have virtue, you donít have anythingóitís all black karma. Then this person
is evil beyond pardon, and is faced with complete destructionóeven the soul
will be destroyed. This is called the complete destruction of body and soul,
something quite terrifying. When being destroyed, lives are destroyed level
by level all the way down, bearing all of their sins while their lives are being
eliminated

Since this virtue is such a precious thing, how can you casually give it to
others? Isnít that qigong master hurting people? He is hurting not only
others but also himself, for he has done too many evil things. He teaches you
how to heal others. Once you develop an attachment, if your inborn foundation
(genji) is good, you will have to use your own virtue to heal others.
The ailment will be transferred over to your body, and you have to give them
your virtue. In the last few years there have been many people that, after giving
others treatments, seemed to contract a terrible illness and felt awful afterwards.
How many such people have there been? Too many! Of those who healed others,
who didnít feel this way? Actually they are all like that. After giving others
treatments they felt just awful, because they were trading their virtue with
others for illnesses. Even worse, they were once people who could reach Consummation
and who could cultivate up to high levels and achieve the True Attainment Status,
but now it has ruined them in an instant. How badly has it ruined them? Peopleís
attachment to fame and fortune are the most difficult to get rid of. You feel
so very pleased when someone says that you are good, and everyone has this hidden
yet very obstinate thought. If someone flatters you, you feel just elated. If
someone calls you a qigong master and says you cured him or her, that
your skills are truly great, youíre just thrilled beyond description.

Think about it everyone, once you develop this attachment to fame and fortune,
it will be just so difficult for you to get rid of it. For many people, when
I tell them that theyíre not allowed to give treatments, they are still itching
to do that, and they just have to treat people. Once this attachment to fame
and fortune develops, how are you going to get rid of it? Also, when you do
healing for others, a field forms between you and the patient. Because you are
cultivating In-Triple-World Law, no matter how high you have cultivated, you
donít have the power to protect yourself. You are sure to be in the same, connecting
field with the patient, and the disease qi of the patient will come over
onto your body. It will even get to the point where you will have more disease
qi on your body than the patient, but because the root of the ailment
is with him and you canít touch it, you still canít cure it. His black qi
was slightly alleviated, and he feels better, but you are left feeling awful.
Perhaps you donít care about one or two bouts of illness at first, but as time
goes on, if you keep treating everyoneís health problems, you will have every
kind of disease qi covering your body. Some qigong masters tell
you to flush it out. Let me tell you, cultivation is up to the individual, but
the gong is up to the master. With your ordinary personís hands, and
these ordinary person thoughts, can you do those things? If you could really
flush out that disease qi, would you get rid of your own health problems
that have plagued you for many years? You canít flush it out like that at all.
You might feel qi going downward in your body, but the good qi
and bad qi go together, and after the qi is let out it will be
sucked back in. So didnít he harm you to no end? You end up with filth all over
your body, and what is that black disease qi? It is karma. When manifest
in the body of this dimension, it is a disease. You end up with a disease-riddled
body and an attachment to fame and fortune. This attachment is very difficult
to get rid of, and when you heal others, you end up feeling awful yourself.

Many people donít know that the first stage of In-Triple-World Law cultivation
is purifying the body. The purpose is to let qi fill up and flow through
the body, so that the body can be cleansed. This is to prepare for cultivation
at higher levels and to establish some basic, fundamental things. Cultivation
at high levels is also a process of continually cleansing and cleansing, making
it purer, purer, and even purer, and in the end it is replaced by high-energy
matter. The entire In-Triple-World Law cultivation is purifying oneís own body.
Then think about it, when you continually give treatments and continually bring
dirty things onto your body, arenít you precisely going against cultivation?
When you treat others, are you truly doing it out of great compassion? Youíre
not. You are being controlled by the attachment to fame and fortune. If itís
not for money, then itís for fame. Once you can heal people, you will itch to
heal more; you will feel that you canít show off your skills if you donít give
treatments. Isnít that the case? But isnít cultivation about getting rid of
human attachments? How would you get rid of this attachment? He is really hurting
you deeply, so we disclosed the fundamental reason for not treating illnesses.

For those people who can truly heal people and have cultivated to a very high
level, they may not have reached enlightenment. Such a person may once in a
while see a good person and do a healing for himóthis can be done. Usually they
donít leave their name and donít want any reward; most of them are this way.
Actually he canít fundamentally resolve the problem either. He can only postpone
the tribulation for you, push it down from this surface material dimension of
ours, and press it down to a deep material dimension, but it will eventually
come back up. He might also transform this for you, so instead of a disease,
you encounter other types of troubles. Many cultivation methods cultivate the
subordinate consciousness (fu yishi). Although he has some gong,
he doesnít know at all what gong he has, what form the gong takes,
what state the gong is in, how the gong came about, how it was
cultivated, or where the gong exists. He doesnít know these things at
all. He only knows to do it, while actually it is the subordinate consciousness
that does it, since it is the subordinate soul (fu yuanshen) who is cultivating.
So he will postpone it or transform it onto someone elseís body. It canít be
transformed at will, it has to be a friend or family member. But there are other
conditions for such an exchange, since you canít give others illness for nothing.
You have to give up somethingóthere is such a principle.

Here I would like to tell everyone, although some qigong masters are
very famous, they are really making a wreck of human society. Now there is hardly
any pure land left. The workplaces in ordinary human society are all the same.
Which place doesnít have those things that harm our human society, ordinary
peopleís society? Demons are everywhere. Qigong itself is cultivation,
so can this be a pure land? Why do some people want to harm our Falun Dafa?
Itís just because they can no longer attain fame and benefit themselves. Of
course, itís not okay if demons donít exist at all. If there were no demons,
then it would be too easy to cultivate, as there would be no obstacles for cultivating
upwards in Falun Dafa; this would just be too simple. In order to get rid of
peopleís attachments, every aspect of them has to exposed. In particular, at
some of our Falun Dafa practice sites, there are some people who claim, ďIím
a Buddha. Donít study with Li Hongzhi.Ē Why does this occur? Itís just to see
if you will waver at a fundamental level. All the way until you cultivate to
the last step, your mind will be tested to see if you understand the Fa and
if you are steadfast at a fundamental level. Every aspect has to improve and
be solid.

Here Iíll talk about something else. In the future, the worldly small Tao or
small Fa methods of treating illness might still exist. They are just a form
that exists. I have talked about how they treat illness, and their power of
healing is very small. They can treat minor illnesses, but not major ones. An
extremely small number of cultivators can do it for a very small number of people,
but they definitely canít do things that disrupt society on a large scale. Some
so-called qigong masters hold classes with many people and teach them
to heal others. Attendees are supposed to turn into qigong doctors itís
claimed, and they can then treat any disease. If that were true, then people
wouldnít have any health problems, which is impossible. Thatís the way it is.
But can they heal people? Doing healing is just the state that they are in and
the form that they take. Our Falun Dafa is teaching the practice at high levels,
it is true cultivation.

True cultivation is saving people, so Iíll tell you clearly that if you truly
cultivate Falun Dafa, you canít give people treatments. If you really do so,
it is considered undermining the Fa and damaging the Fa. As soon as you heal
people, I wonít let you harm and pollute such a precious thing, and my Law Body
will take back the Falun, the mechanisms, and everything else. There are no
true cultivators who do healings and things of this sort. In the past, which
Taoist or Buddhist monks talked about giving treatments? Some used medicine
to treat illnesses, and in extremely isolated cases, it was permitted to use
gong to heal someone. But there still had to be conditions, it was not
allowed to be unconditional. We have stated this very clearly for everyone,
and I have explained the ins and outs with everyone. It really does harm you
a great, great deal. Think about it, if a qigong master wants to heal
othersí ailments, he has to go through decades of cultivation before he can
cultivate those abilities. You have studied for three days, five days, or ten
days, and you can supposedly heal peopleódoesnít that sound like childís play?
Everyone can think for themselves, so think about it. If in three days you could
become a qigong master, then I would say cultivating that ďTaoĒ is just
too easy. It would be equivalent to saying you could become a Buddha as easily
as picking up a rock from the ground. This is all I will say on this subject.
There are too many things to talk about, and I canít possibly tell everyone
at once what we talked about during class for fifteen to sixteen hours.

If you want to cultivate, you have to study this Fa well. Our Falun
Dafaís book, Zhuan Falun, has been published. Itís based entirely on
the content of my lectures and is presented in full. In the future, you can
rely on this book for cultivation in our school. I wonít say any more. Iíll
conclude this brief talk. In conclusion, I hope that everyone is able to soon
reach Consummation in the cultivation of Dafa!